World Language Maps. Some of the most widely spoken languages of the world by population are Chinese Spanish English Bengali Hindi. This web edition of the Ethnologue may be cited as.
Clicking on a language name will display an information window below the map containing basic data about the language and its speakers. Click on the link above to read the terms for use of this linguistic world map on your web page. Today Spanish has 399 million native speakers but these are mostly concentrated in Latin America.
These seven maps and charts visualized by The Washington Post will help you understand how diverse other parts of the world are in terms of.
Countries often have official languages that are given legal status but there are also additional designations including regional minority national and widely spoken languages that indicate a language is spoken by a sizable share of a countrys population. The World Language Mapping System WLMS is the result of over 17 years of collaborative work between Global Mapping International GMI and the SIL International SIL to map the over 6800 languages described in SILs 15th edition Ethnologue. Steve Huffmans Language Maps. The worlds languages in 7 maps and charts.
